Nepal, June 10 -- UNICEF and other international organisations, including our statutes, claim that education is a basic human right. To achieve that goal, we need to re-examine our school education critically. There's a need to make quality education available to all students, irrespective of their class, and to revamp and modernise our teaching and learning methods for the progress and prosperity of our country.

Our school kids are mercilessly loaded with home assignments every day. Here, if I may, I would like to give a homework to our Education Minister, Raghuji Panta, to try and make our school education more scientific, egalitarian and change-oriented. He should perhaps start by examining the contents of the school textbooks.

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